No; it’s not simply you: hundreds of studies are flooding in, complaining of repeated crashes when making an attempt to entry YouTube utilizing iPhones and iPads.
Google has acknowledged a problem affecting iOS gadgets and is already engaged on a repair. Nonetheless, a a lot smaller variety of Android and desktop browser customers are additionally reporting issues accessing movies hosted on the positioning.
iOS customers affected by the bug are struggling persistent crashes after 20-30 seconds of viewing. Restarting the machine, or turning it off and again on, doesn’t seem to repair the issue.
Error studies began to spike at round 9am PT, in response to the real-time standing tracker Downdetector, reaching slightly below 8,000 by the point of writing. Nonetheless, YouTube itself isn’t down — The overwhelming majority of issues originate from app customers (73%), with simply 9% originating from these accessing the service by way of a browser.
If you happen to’re at present affected by the problem, you might discover success through the use of a browser as a substitute of the app. If that doesn’t be just right for you, you’ll simply need to previous tight and await Google to repair the issue.
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